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By Sarah Rugheimer IT IS the biggest question in the universe: are we alone? Philosophers have debated the question for millennia. When 16th-century Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno declared that the cosmos contained “an infinity of worlds of the...

Light-matter interaction without interference

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190823204935.htm

Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels

https://neurosciencenews.com/robotic-thread-bbb-14822/

A Successful Artificial Memory Has Been Created

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-successful-artificial-memory-has-been-created/

Warner Classics digitises its full catalogue on new streaming site

Aug 29, 2019 | The Arts Section

http://m.classical-music.com/news/warner-classics-digitises-its-full-catalogue-new-streaming-site Related news Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/arts/music/clara-schumann.html by Translucidmind | Sep 5, 2019 | The Arts...

BBC Radio 3 announces 2019 New Generation Artists

http://m.classical-music.com/news/bbc-radio-3-announces-2019-new-generation-artists

New evidence that optimists live longer

https://translucidmind.com/new-evidence-that-optimists-live-longer/

Can You Eat Yourself Happy?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/mood-microbe/201908/can-you-eat-yourself-happy

It Turns Out Plants Make Sounds as They Grow—and a New Sound Art Show at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Lets You Listen

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/plant-sounds-brooklyn-botanic-garden-1635949

The Emotional Roller-Coaster of a Digital Detox Vacation

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/201908/the-emotional-roller-coaster-digital-detox-vacation

Physicists mash quantum and gravity and find time, but not as we know it

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190826122010.htm

New findings on human speech recognition

https://neurosciencenews.com/human-speech-recognition-14817/

An island for negative emotions

https://neurosciencenews.com/insular-cortex-negative-emotion-14820/

Religion and Spirituality Books Preview: Sept. 2019

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/81001-religion-and-spirituality-books-preview-sept-2019.html

Quantum weirdness isn’t real – we’ve just got space and time all wrong

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332440-600-quantum-weirdness-isnt-real-weve-just-got-space-and-time-all-wrong/

Mind meld: Artificial intelligence is improving the way humans think

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332440-700-mind-meld-artificial-intelligence-is-improving-the-way-humans-think/

New classical music release: John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean

Aug 29, 2019 | Song of the Week

http://www.classical-music.com/new-release/hear-clip-become-ocean John Luther Adams: Become Ocean Seattle Symphony Orchestra/Ludovic Morlot Cantaloupe Music CA21101 (CD & DVD)

How memories form and fade: Strong memories are encoded by teams of neurons working together in synchrony

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190823140729.htm

Archaeology Magazine

https://www.archaeology.org/exclusives?slg=australia-rock-art-of-djulirri

In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/arts/dance/merce-cunningham-technique.html

The brain’s drain: How our brains flush out their waste and toxins

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2210825-the-brains-drain-how-our-brains-flush-out-their-waste-and-toxins/

Spontaneous brain fluctuations influence risk-taking

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-fluctuations-risk-taking-14796/

The universe may be conscious, say prominent scientists

https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/the-universe-may-be-conscious-prominent-scientists-state

A classic quantum theorem may prove there are many parallel universes

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213756-a-classic-quantum-theorem-may-prove-there-are-many-parallel-universes/

Nearly 100, the Salzburg Festival Doesn’t Wait to Celebrate

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/arts/music/salzburg-festival-opera.html

Neural Mechanism Central to Human Free Recall Identified

https://neurosciencenews.com/free-recall-14722/

Take Two Basquiats and Call Me in the Morning

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-carpe-diem-project/201908/take-two-basquiats-and-call-me-in-the-morning

What if there was no big bang and we live in an ever-cycling universe?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332430-800-what-if-there-was-no-big-bang-and-we-live-in-an-ever-cycling-universe/

Mind Over Matter

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/mysteries-consciousness/201908/mind-over-matter

Christian Löffler – Young Alaska ( Full Album )

Aug 22, 2019 | Song of the Week

A Trip inside the Schizophrenic Mind

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-trip-inside-the-schizophrenic-mind/

Are Attitudes Contagious?

https://neurosciencenews.com/contagious-attitudes-14746/

A map of the brain can tell what you’re reading

https://neurosciencenews.com/reading-brain-map-14740/

Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe’s radical new fate

Aug 22, 2019 | Physics

Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe’s radical new fate Our best models of cosmology suggest the universe will either go on forever, implode or rip itself apart. A new proposal suggests an even weirder destiny Anil Ananthaswamy TRILLIONS of years from now,...